Cooperation, attachment to people, understanding human verbal and non-verbal communications, and the ability to imitate are just a handful of the social behaviors we share with dogs. They might even think like us at times too, according to the paper, which has been accepted for publication in the journal Advances in the Study of Behavior.

While there is no evidence to support that dogs and humans co-evolved their laundry list of shared behaviors over the past 10,000 to 20,000 years, the researchers believe adapting to the same living conditions during this period may have resulted in the similarities.

Thought this was kind of interesting. The video is short and cute, so remember to check it out.

I was doing research online and it says his medication may help, but he'll be on bed rest for the next 4 weeks. He ate earlier today, so I'm feeling better about that ... but now he won't poop. Even if I hold him up, he can't seem to go.

If his medications do not do the trick, he will have to go in for a dye x-ray. If that shows the disc, he'll need surgery. We're hoping it doesn't come to that.

No bloodwork, but I took him back into the e-vet last night and they think he is suffering from a slipped disc which is pinching his spinal nerve.

We have to go back in a couple of days to get x-rays done on his upper spinal column to see if we can find the culprit. For now he is on a new drug regimen of steroids and painkillers in hopes it will help him feel better.

Apollo is experiencing progressive pain on the right side of his body. It started as a dull pain in his right hind leg, that got worse and now the pain is all the way up the side and also in his right front leg.

They did x-rays on the back leg and found nothing, assumed it was a sprain. They put Apollo on Metacam which helped a little the first night, but is no longer assisting him with pain. He has not eaten anything in over 24 hours.

Are there any thoughts on what this could be? He will be going back to the vet, but I need suggestions here. This is really eating at us and we can't even begin to think what this could be.

This is precisely why I'll have my own airline-approved kennel for my pup and he will be flying in-cabin with me anytime we board an airline. I'll give up my one bag to make sure he is with me and he is safe and secure at all times.

I get the whole zip ties thing, but most people don't fly often and so they don't even think about that. Plus, they're not expecting stupid workers to let their dogs out of their kennels when it's against company policy.

He was probably scared and ran off looking for his owner. That is terribly sad that this happened when it could have easily been prevented.

I also hope that stupid person who let him out gets fired. The rules are there for a reason!